Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2008
A look back to the days before 9/11 when US/UK backed Al-Queda units were being used to break up Yugoslavia. For a more detailed account of this see Inside the Crevice by Nafeez Mossadegh Ahmed.
21st July, 2008
A renown Jihad veteran currently fighting extradition from Bosnia where he has a citizenship, says that the United States was demanding in 1995 that his Bosnian Muslim El-Mujaheed unit move to Kosovo where US was expecting new Balkan fighting to be started soon.
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2008
This, indeed, looks like the new Obama foreign as we seeit already unfolding under Bush. But, it has to said that it looks like utter fantasy, a wish list of targets from an ailing hegemon which looks destined to be checked at every stage by the diplomacy of Russia, South America, Iran, China and Africa; in short, by the movement of emerging and reemerging nations given such stimulus by US/UK aggression. Already, the latter are faltering in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Kosovo and Burma: the game is just too transparent. The shift is, after all, the result of military defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, from which the allies are retreating whilst sounding the charge. We can expect retreat to turn into a rout over the next year as the US/UK financial system implodes and all and sundry jump ship leaving the oligarchy high and dry.
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2008
Or viewed from another perspective: what happens when you save the banks but everyone else goes under? What happens when consumption collapses, the pound tumbles and the state itself is bankrupt? With a dead stare, Britain looks into the abyss.
Edmund Conway
20th July, 2008
The Treasury may be planning to raise the limit on public borrowing in an effort to give it “room for manoeuvre” for a potential rescue operation for the banking system, a leading expert has suggested.
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Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008
See also EoE archives
For some time now, members of the government and the medical industry have tried to explain away the phenomenon of parental refusal to vaccinate. Despite the government’s own studies, such as Rogers and Pilgrim; 1993, which shows that “Older, highly educated parents form the basis of the [sic] anti-immunisation lobby”, parents continue to be accused of being ignorant, uncaring and stupid for refusing vaccines which the medical community claim will keep their children healthy.
In an effort to set the record straight, the AVN, which is contacted by more than 10,000 Australian parents each year who question this procedure, would like to give you the 10 most common reasons why the parents who contact us have chosen not to vaccinate.
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Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008
This is a nice summary of the Obama school of foreign policy thinking, ommiting only the anti-Russian dimension.This policy seems already to be mainstream. Thus, in addition to the ongoing provocations in Burma, Zimbabwe and Kosovo, we have as Bhadrakumar puts it:
‘The strong possibility.. that the Bush administration will press the pedal on multiple fronts on the Eurasian geopolitical landscape and create a fait accompli of US-Russian mutual antagonism for Senator Barack Obama, should he become president.“
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military’s growing role in rebuilding war-battered nations has fueled concerns about a “creeping militarization” of American foreign policy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th July, 2008
Last week, the gloves finally came off the Dmitry Medvedev presidency in Russia. It had to happen sooner or later, but few would have expected this soon. It was crystal clear US President George W Bush administered a diplomatic snub to Medvedev on the sidelines of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Hokkaido, Japan.
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
By Mike Whitney
18/07/08 “ICH” — – The Fed’s emergency rescue plan for the financial markets is hopelessly flawed. It’s a scattershot approach that doesn’t address the real source of the problem; an unregulated, unsustainable structured finance system that emerged in full-force after 2000 and spawned a shadow banking system that creates trillions of dollars of credit without sufficient capital reserves. This is the heart of the problem and it needs to be debated openly. The present system doesn’t work; it’s as simple as that. It makes no sense to provide trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to shore up a system that is essentially dysfunctional. It’s just throwing money down a rat-hole.
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
| A day conference Saturday 19 July, London United Reformed Church Programme 10:30–11:00: Registration 11:00–13:00: Why we need justice for Iraq
13:00–13:45: Lunch 13:45–15:15: Workshops Workshop 1: Stopping the corporate carve-up
Workshop 2: The humanitarian crisis
Workshop 3: War crimes: ending impunity
15:15–15:30: Break 15:30–17:00: The way forward: Iraq solidarity for the long-term
17:00: Ends Entry by donation (suggested amount: £7/£5 unwaged) For more information download the event leaflet or visit the Justice for Iraq blog at: www.justiceforiraq.net. Justice for Iraq Facebook group >> Justice for Iraq will pressure Iraq’s occupiers to:
These demands do not represent a complete or final list. This campaign is in the process of emerging and we are reaching out to build a network of organisations and individuals who share a similar goal. Join us on 19th July to be a part of debating, building and launching this campaign. |
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
“There is no such thing as a free bailout.”
Colby Cosh
18th July, 2008
Dammit, someone has to say it: Shouldn’t the first clue that something was wrong with Fannie Mae and Freddie Machave been their names? Surely a country has to be courting trouble when it lets its secondary mortgage market be captured by companies that sound like things your grandmother would say instead of cursing. “Oh, Freddie Mac! Looks like we’ll have to increase the money supply again, Paw.”
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
John Nichols
13th July, 2008
See also: Cynthia McKinney takes on Donald Rumsfeld
The Green Party has made a good deal of history this weekend.
The party has nominated a former member of Congress for the presidency, a coup for the party that itself has yet to elect a U.S. representative or senator.
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Posted by seumasach on July 17, 2008
Auge y caída de una versión oficial
Luis del Pino
17th July, 2008
English translation at foot of each paragraph.
Hoy se ha derrumbado un poco más ese edificio en ruinas denominado “versión oficial del 11-M”.
[Today the edifice called “the official version of 11-M” collapsed further.]
Sin autores intelectuales
[A plot without plotters]
La sentencia del Tribunal Supremo da por buena, para los tres autores intelectuales que la Fiscalía había presentado, la absolución de los cargos que se les habían realizado en ese sentido. A Mohamed El Egipcio, a quien durante tanto tiempo se presentó como el máximo ideólogo del atentado, ni siquiera se le condena por pertenencia a banda armada, puesto que El Egipcio ya está siendo juzgado por ese motivo en Italia. A Hassan el Haski, otro de los “autores intelectuales” presentados por la Fiscalía, no sólo no le condenan comoinductor de la masacre, sino que le rebajan la pena que le había caído por pertenencia a banda armada.
[The Supreme Tribunal absolves those charged with planning the 11-M bombings as follows. Mohamed El Egipcio, for so long presented as the master planner behind the attacks, isn’t even charged with being a member of an armed band, since he was already charged with being that in Italy. Hassan el Haski, another of the “ringleaders” according to the prosecutors, is not only not charged as being behind the massacre, but his sentence for membership of an armed band has been reduced]
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